One of the many things I love about James–and there’s no shortage, James is an absurdly wonderful person, and I occasionally contemplate that I am stupidly lucky in that regard–but one more thing on the pile is that I can IM him at work out of the blue and say “Come home for lunch! I […]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
I keep noodling around with these abstract backgrounded study thingies. I’m not sure why. Something must be percolating in t’old hindbrain. I hope. Until it deigns to make itself known, I’m left with lots of weird little studies, which for lack of anything else to do, I’m inflicting upon my long-suffering public. Here’s a wolverine […]
The cover for Chapter Four of Digger, “Metaphors and Machinations” is up for auction. It does not feature our wombat heroine, but instead a terribly minor character that I felt the need to memorialize. (The nice thing about webcomics is that the covers aren’t all that important in a newsstand sense, so if I need […]
The back of the van is gone. The front leans drunkenly forward on its bumper. The engine has migrated across the lawn to the OTHER van on blocks. I thought that perhaps it was seeking a new host, and James finally went out and asked what in the name of bunnies was up, and had […]
The van has undergone a second transformation. I glanced out the window earlier and thought “Hmm…seems…longer…?” I went out to get the mail, baffled, and discovered that the van is now in two seperate pieces. The cab, lacking seating, engine, or indeed floor, is now leaning forward drunkenly on two wheels. Since the engine is […]
The driver’s side seat has been ripped out (but not the passenger seat.) Engine has been extracted, presumably relocated to somewhere on the lawn. Some sort of small wooden box has been erected over the passenger back wheel hump, but not the driver’s side back wheel hump. Neighbor is standing hunched over in the cab, […]
Got a check in the mail today. Was excited when I saw the return address, popped it open, and became rapidly less excited. Looks like the project was scrapped, they activated the kill fee clause, and I got a fraction of what I was expecting. The work was done a long time ago, so the […]
The van has…evolved. The giant hole in the side eventually, in a twisted and mauled fashion, turned into the entire back two-thirds. The van is now a flatbed. There is metal around the cab yet, but the rest has been cut down to the floor and the wheel humps. The sheet of metal that used […]
I feel like I’m trapped in a Tom Waits song. Generally this only happens on long car rides across the Midwest, where after about five hundred miles and several gallons of coffee, my brain gets stuck in “Gun Street Girl.” (I blame Waukeegan.) In this case, however, I am living a peculiar suburban version of […]
A quick little study of one of the local birds, which I have been noodling around on as stress relief from the whole thingy thing. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14829747/ Someday, in that perfect world of free time that I hope to inhabit, I will have time to do studies of all the local birds. I don’t really care […]